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We live in a zone 4/5 small town in Central Idaho. We always have multiple yard projects going and this will serve as our garden journal. We also add various animals to our developing small farm yearly and plan to update their antics as needed.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Well, so far I have most of my cool season crops planted. A few of this years plantings are new to me. This list is as follows:

Swiss Chard - Mixed Color

Swiss Chard - Fordhook Giant

Lettuce - Butter Crunch

Lettuce - Simpson Elite

Lettuce - Rouge d'Hiver

Lettuce - Red Salad Bowl

Spinach

Beets - Detroit Dark Red

Peas - Maestro (shelling)

Peas - Green Arrow (shelling)

Strawberries (already growing)

Onion - Lisbon, White Bunching

Onion - Red

Onion - Yellow

Leeks

Asparagus

Brocolli

Brussel Sprouts

I only have one of the smaller raised beds left and was waiting on another type of beet for canning to show but Park Seed has failed me once again. I may plant Sugar Snap peas in that spot. Funny how we just expanded the raised beds last year and this year I am out of space. Good thing the new Intimidating Row Garden is under construction or I wouldn't have a place to put everything else I plan to grow.

There's never enough beds! We add to our garden every year, and have to bring in topsoil as the area near our house was dozed down to clay and rock by the previous owners. Can't wait to see yours when they are full of green color!

What a wonderful garden and raised beds. I started veggie gardening last year for the first time and didn't do raised beds... I just enriched the existing soil. Everything did well, but could have done better, so this year I'm going to do some raised beds of some sort. Your blog is so informative and inspirational!

Just look at all those raised beds! How cool is that. They are a lot of work to put in, but once you have them--wahoo!. I gave up on them because they seem to require some method of regular irrigation. I mean... all gardens require that, but raised beds start showing stress sooner, and I think that having a good supply of irrigation water is even more essential for sucess with them. Our well is shallow, and having to water a lot of garden just doesn't work for me. Do you try mixed plantings in them?

Love your raised beds!! They're so much better for pest control. And don't worry about having too many vegetables- if your friends and family are anything like mine, they'll take them off your hands! :)

Hi Heather, I grew the colorful swiss chard last year and it was a big hit! My brussel sprouts..not so much. I'm envious you will have asparagus..nothing beats them fresh out of the garden. Can't wait to see them beds mature!

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We started this blog in Feb. of 2009 to help us stay motivated and to track our progess in the garden. We live on 5 acres surrounded by Idaho farmland. We have wildlife galore and are attempting to attract more in the bird catagory. This is our journal. Welcome!